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  • Which is clearly necessary, and companies know it.

    Open any MMO built and organized around a player economy (designed by a for-profit corporation) and you will see they know that individual wealth can upset the balance of the game.

    They set maximum currency values, or they charge you periodic taxes for existing in the server.

    When people are being honest about wealth, we all know the concentration of wealth in the extreme fucks up the system for everybody.

    And video game systems do not even have a scarcity problem like the real world.










  • My precious dog, who doesn’t have much time left, and I spend my days dreading losing.

    She’s been with me since I nearly killed myself in college, pulled me out of depression, through graduation, the first date with my wife, our wedding, covid where I feuded with my family for 2 years and had almost nobody, and a move across the country.

    We’ve got 3-6 months left together, and I don’t know who I will be with her gone.

    We do not deserve dogs.









  • I see a lot of MMOs being recommended, but I find them to be either shallow in combat or predatory unless you are seeking MMO specific things, so I’m going to point at single player/coop stuff.

    Bethesda has a large selection of open world games, but I pretty much assume people have played all of them (Elder Scrolls / Fallout games).

    If you are okay with going outside of Fantasy, the Far Cry series has some impressive technology in their older titles. Far Cry 2 is a personal favorite, your PC might be able to handle it.

    Borderlands series.

    The original Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen holds up. This is probably my best recommendation based on your asks.

    Lego Star Wars or the Lego Marvel game.

    Fable 1, 2, 3

    The Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor / Shadow of War Games were pretty incredible but might be too high-end.

    The first Red Dead Redemption might run for you.

    Early Dark souls games might run. Maybe 1 or 2.

    From here, I would start listing old Star Wars Jedi Knight series games.

    I could probably go on, but this is most of the good stuff off the top of my head.

    I forgot to add Mass Effect. Great for sci-fi, great leveling, and combat.